Habitue Games Journal

Things I've Learnt   Since Element Rush I've learnt a couple things and added it to my mental book of "What not to do when making games".And one of the things that I noticed is, planning! planning! planning! It is such a integral part to making games, at least for me it is. It helps me avoid several things, derailing the original game idea, getting stress...

Hey guys, for the past two to three weeks I've been working on a little game called Element Rush.http://s10.postimg.org/g3ioflazd/title.png It's the first game that I've made with phones in mind so it's an Android game.I wanted the game to be relatively simple but based around one mechanic, basically the player dies in one hit...But.. The player has a man...

Well I was contacted by a website looking to sell indie games and they wanted Archer Alec in their store.So now it's there.When I first started Archer Alec I knew next to nothing about how to make a game. And I still have a whole lot to learn about game design.Archer Alec has changed since the first version back in May of 2012, going from randomly generat...

Lately I've been transitioning into my new Job(Why Archer Alec has been a little stagnated here), while squeezing in time to work on Archer Alec  on the side.The Job is ok it pays good enough to start saving to afford a car eventually, and help pay for my girlfriends tuition (partially). But enough with the boring stuff lets talk about Archer Alec. Overvi...

The Kickstarter for Archer Alec is now Live Archer Alec Kickstarter Link ->  Here Well I've been hard at work preparing this.I go over where the money is going on the page and in the video but ill summarize it here for you!-Code-Art-Paying for all the Music-Website HostingThe goal is 5,000 I think we can make it happen.Currently every backer gets a sp...

This week I've fixed a lot of things and changed a couple of core components about Archer Alec that I think will be for the better.Changes:- Bow power up purchase from Shop- Trap counter/ Max traps (There is now a max number of traps you can have on a given level)- Wave Timers- Slight Level Select Rework- Online Highscore- Increased doors Health points- M...

This week I've been working on a grading system in Archer Alec.The grading system works like this:At the beginning of a round all the peasants in a level are counted.Then at the end all are counted for again and depending on the number that survived will determine your grade and if you pass the level.If less than half survive you have to redo the level.ht...

Hey guys, this week I've worked on the two monsters the Troll Earth Mage
and the Troll Rock Thrower.
I made a video showing what they look like and what they do.
It has a little bit of a jitter in the video something happened while rendering.


Im getting a demo ready, so that...

I've got a few updates this week. First off the two traps for the swamp biome are now finished.

Vine Trap: Entangles monsters that walk into it and holds them for 4-6 seconds dealing damage to them. And will dissappear after the 5th monster it traps.

Bog Trap: This trap will be a tar pool and when small monsters walk over it they will...

Hey guys got a lot of work done in the past week, will be adding music once I get a new build of the game to Philip (he does the music).

UPDATES
Swamp Biome
Monsters
-Goblin Tar Thrower
This monster throws tar, when the tar hits a block it will stick to it similar to how traps work. Tar slows the player limiting movement.

-Goblin...